Saturday, August 27, 2011

3DS reveal

Hey guys this is Tom, a member of GeekBeerz, you may have seen my other sites ZA4M and STAT. Anyways I put up a video of me and Shrew opening up his 3DS for the first time. Here is the video:



Pretty cool huh?



We admit that it was hard to get use to the 3D, almost made my head hurt from looking too long, but overall it is a nice new piece of technology. -Tom West

Thursday, August 18, 2011

Minecraft Creator Challenges Bethesda

Recently, Notch, the brilliant mind behind the hit game Minecraft, announced the title and details about his next game Scrolls. Shortly after, Bethesda found out about it and filed a lawsuit against him saying that the title, "infringes on their trademark and everyone will confuse it with Skyrim."

Now, in my opinion, the reason that they're saying Scrolls would get confused with Skyrim is absurd. I mean, yes, technically the full title is The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, but no one even addresses anything before the colon. Everyone who knows about these games calls them Morrowind or Oblivion.

In response to all this nonsense, Notch has sent a challenge back to Bethesda:

The only negative thing going on at this moment is the Scrolls trademark lawsuit nonsense, and I think I came up with the perfect solution:

Remember that scene in Game of Thrones where Tyrion chose a trial by battle in the Eyrie? Well, let’s do that instead!
I challenge Bethesda to a game of Quake 3. Three of our best warriors against three of your best warriors. We select one level, you select the other, we randomize the order. 20 minute matches, highest total frag count per team across both levels wins.

If we win, you drop the lawsuit.

If you win, we will change the name of Scrolls to something you’re fine with.

Regardless of the outcome, we could still have a small text somewhere saying our game is not related to your game series in any way, if you wish.

Bethesda has yet to respond to this, but if they accept the challenge, I'm hoping everything ends well...with a livestream going so everyone else can watch the carnage. :)

~Geoff

Source: Notch

Sunday, August 14, 2011

Geoff's Big List of Games

Yo, this is Geoff from the Geek Beerz Podcast. On the podcast, we're going to get together and list of all the games each of us has beaten. In preparation for that, I decided to post my list of games I own. I'll be updating this monthly.



PC Games
Age of Empires: Gold Edition
Age of Empires II: Age of Kings + The Conquerors
Age of Mythology: Gold Edition
And Yet It Moves
Atom Zombie Smasher
Black & White
Braid
Cogs
Cortex Commander
Crayon Physics Deluxe
Diablo II
Diablo II: Lord of Destruction
Fate
Fate: Undiscovered Realms
Frozen Synapse
Hammerfight
Jack Claw
Lost Planet: Extreme Condition
Machinarium
Neverwinter Nights: Diamond Edition
Neverwinter Nights 2 + expansions
Osmos
Revenge of the Titans
Shadowgrounds
Shadowgrounds: Survivor
Starcraft + Brood Wars
Star Wars: Republic Commando
Steel Storm: Burning Retribution
SpaceChem
Splot
Thief Gold
Thief 2: The Metal Age
Thief: Deadly Shadows
TRAUMA
Trine
VVVVVV
Warcraft II: Battle.net Edition
Warcraft III: Battlechest

Gamecube Games
Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem
Killer7
The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures
Metroid Prime
Namco Museum: 50th Anniversary
Resident Evil
Sonic Gems Collection
Sonic Mega Collection
Starfox Adventures
Starfox Assault
Super Smash Bros.: Melee
Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness

Nintendo Wii
MadWorld
Red Steel
Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles

Playstation Portable
Final Fantasy
Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together

Nintendo 64
All-Star Baseball '99
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
Nuclear Strike 64
Starfox 64
Top Gear Rally

Nintendo DS
Elite Beat Agents
Feel The Magic XY♥XX
The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks
Solatorobo: Red the Hunter
Starfox: Command
The World Ends With You

Playstation 2
Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance
Barbarian
Bujingai: The Forsaken City
Dance Dance Revolution: Max
Dance Dance Revolution: Supernova 2
Darkwatch
Devil Kings
Devil May Cry
Dynasty Warriors 5
Dynasty Warriors 5: Xtreme Legends
EOE: Eve of Extinction
Extermination
Fatal Frame
Fatal Frame III: The Tormented
Final Fantasy VII: Dirge of Cerberus
Final Fantasy X
Final Fantasy X-2
Final Fantasy XII
Final Fantasy Tactics (PS1)
Fullmetal Alchemist and the Broken Angel
Fullmetal Alchemist 2: Curse of the Crimson Elixir
Fur Fighters: Viggo's Revenge
Gitaroo Man
Goblin Commander: Unleash The Horde
Half-Life
Haunting Ground
Hitman 2: Silent Assassin
Hitman: Contracts
Kingdom Hearts
Kingdom Hearts: Re:Chain of Memories
Kingdom Hearts II
Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning
The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age
The Mark of Kri
Max Payne
Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne
Monster Hunter
NanoBreaker
No One Lives Forever
Odin Sphere
Okami
Pirates: Legend of the Black Buccaneer
Project Eden
PRYZM Chapter One: The Dark Unicorn
Radiata Stories
Ratchet: Deadlocked
Resident Evil Code: Veronica X
Resident Evil 4
Rogue Galaxy
Rule of Rose
Samurai Western
Shadow of the Colossus
Shinobi
Siren
Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus
Sly 2: Band of Thieves
Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves
SOCOM U.S. Navy Seals: Commbined Assault
Space Channel 5: Special Edition
State of Emergency
The Suffering: Ties That Bind
The Thing
Tekken Tag Tournament
Total Overdose: Gunslinger's Tale in Mexico
Tribes: Ariel Assault
Tsugunai: Atonement
Turok: Evolution
Twisted Metal: Black
Way of the Samurai
Yakuza

Xbox 360
Aegis Wing
Alone in the Dark
Alpha Protocol
Assassin's Creed
Assassin's Creed 2
Bayonetta
The Beatles: Rock Band
Beyond Good & Evil HD
Bioshock
Blue Dragon
Borderlands: Game of the Year
Bubble Bobble Neo!
Burnout: Paradise
Castlevania: Harmony of Despair
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
Chime
Condemned: Criminal Origins
Condemned 2: Bloodshot
Crackdown
Dark Souls
Dance Dance Revolution
Dead to Rights: Retribution
Deadly Premonition
Deus Ex: Human Revolution
DJ Hero
DJ Hero 2
Doom
Doom 3
Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil
Dragon Age: Origins + DLC & Awakening
Enclave
Enchanted Arms
Enslaved: Odyssey to the West
Fable II
Fallout 3
Final Fantasy XIII
Frontlines: Feul of War
Gears of War
Greed Corp
Halo
Halo 3
Halo: Reach
Hard Corps: Uprising
Hexic HD
Hydro Thunder: Hurricane
Ikaruga
ilomilo
Infinite Undiscovery
Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet
Kameo: Elements of Power
The Last Remnant
Left 4 Dead
Limbo
Lost Odyssey
Lost Planet
Lost Planet 2
Magic: The Gathering
Mass Effect
Mass Effect 2
N+
Ninety-Nine Nights
Ninja Gaiden
Ninja Gaiden Black
Oblivion
Operation: Darkness
The Orange Box
Panzer Dragoon: Orta
Perfect Dark
Power Gig: Rise of the Six String
Project Sylpheed
Rainbow Six: Vegas
Rock Band 2
Rock Band 3
Saint's Row
Saint's Row 2
Shadow Complex
Small Arms
Sonic the Hedgehog
Sonic the Hedgehog 2
Sonic the Hedgehog 3
Splinter Cell: Double Agent
'Splosion Man
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
Stranglehold
Tekken 6
TimeShift
Tomb Raider: Anniversary
Torchlight
Two Worlds
Vandal Hearts: Flames of Judgement
Vanquish
Viking: Battle For Asgard
X Men: The official Game

~Geoff

Friday, August 12, 2011

New 3DS Color and Price Drop

      At the E3 press release of the latest handheld device, the 3DS, there was one design and six colors shown. (http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/207/nintendo3dssystemcolour.jpg http://www.infendo.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/nintendo-3ds-black-blue-640x460.jpg these are the 6 colors Nintendo has come up with.) But when released in the US UK and Japan the Colors were Black and Blue, what happened to the others? It seems like Nintendo enjoys giving us amazing things to look forward to then ends up just falling short of their expectations.

      You know black and blue are great colors for Nintendo to start with, I mean they have been beat up so much that now all they are black and blue bruises trying to fix the problems they have created. Now seems like Nintendo is making the right choice, starting September 9 of the year 2011 Nintendo will be releasing the new Cherry Red 3DS (color not specific to cherry red alone) and dropping the price from the overly expensive amount of $250, down to a reasonable $170. Personally if i were Nintendo I would have taken a vote among the people of japan to find out what colors they would prefer. The way I see it the choices would not fall as blue being the second choice among consumers, it most likely  would have been Black, Red, Green, Blue, then either purple or orange. I believe Nintendo released the blue at first to appeal more to the rising female generation of video gamers, its no longer a guys club anymore, and then the black for the neutrality of the color making it suitable for all.

      Personally I would have chosen purple, mostly because its a color that's not often used, and when talking to Geoff earlier about the 3DS colors he would have liked to see green growing up from out of the ground. The colors Black, Blue, and Red have been used so much by Nintendo that it would have been a nice relief to see some more prominent colors. This price drop will significantly improve the sales of the 3DS, I might consider getting one now that its in my price range, but why such a significant drop in price? Well the release of the 3DS was a failure for Nintendo in many ways, with an amazing new generation of handheld devices who wouldn't want it? and after the release many of us were wondering "where are all of these games Nintendo promised us!" Well here they come, several new games are coming out just in  time for the holiday rush and all of the people out there who were on the edge of fence questioning which way jump, now you no longer have to wonder, the 3DS will become a great handheld system you just have to give it a little more time, so buy it now. 

      - Written by Shrew

Thursday, August 11, 2011

GBP Episode 1 - Top 5 Games

Tom, Alex and Geoff gather around the mic to introduce themselves and say their top 5 games of all time.